As seven alien races struggle to co-exist in an uneasy alliance, the Inter-Stellar Union sends Union Guard agents on missions to preserve the crucial balance. These specialized operatives must do what regional security cannot, dealing with smugglers, pirates, terrorists, and even greater challenges in order to bring stability to a universe that needs it desperately. Without the Union Guard, the races will not be prepared to face a looming alien threat they can only hope to defeat together.

Friday, August 28, 2015

The Future Human (part 5)

Genetic
engineering may actually be able to solve some of the aforementioned
problems that are likely to arise with human cloning. However,
genetic engineering itself is a slippery slope that is just waiting
to define the future of the human race. Movies like “Gattaca”
address a very likely future where genetically modified children will
be improved by families that can afford them. It is disturbing that
our current law is somewhat vague regarding future restrictions in
genetic tampering. Once even one alteration has been made to the
human genome, the change is there forever, affecting all successive
generations from that child. Today, companies are working on
genetically engineering our food, and as usual, law is lagging behind
technology, trying to keep up. Growth hormones and other chemicals
already exist (as approved by the FDA) in our food and household
products and are affecting our children, causing them to enter
puberty several years earlier than normal. The course of natural
human development has already been altered, and whether genetic
manipulation enters the scene under the guise of savior or merely as
a supposedly prudent option, we are likely to see it affect our
society in profound ways within a few decades. Once it begins, we
will have ushered the monster of eugenics into our failing world.